Catholic Links: Resources for Catholic Teaching and Apologetics

As the creator and host of the 10-part "Catholicism," documentary series and study program about the Catholic faith, he has given us what George Weigel calls "the most important media project in the history of the Catholic Church in America." He is a passionate student of art, architecture, music and history, which he calls upon throughout his global travels in the making of the documentary.

Perhaps the single coolest and most enjoyable gift Father Barron brings to anybody hungry to understand the intersection of pop culture and the Faith is the enormously popular Word on Fire YouTube channel, wherein Father Barron offers brilliantly insightful commentary on whatever happens to be in the news today.

There is work on the sacraments, tradition (with replies to the great Protestant creation myth of sola scriptura), the Eucharist, conversations about the various scandals in the Church's history, the Church's relationship with non-Catholic and non-Christian religions, and more. Dave has written 24 e-books and maintains a blog in which he merrily argues for the Faith with a wide variety of folks from all manner of backgrounds.

Visit his site if to see a lay apostle at work in cyberspace!

Ed Peters received his degree in (American common) law from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1982 and his doctoral degree in Roman Catholic canon law from The Catholic University of America in 1991. In 2010, Pope Benedict XVI named him a referendarius — basically a canon law consultant — of the Church's highest court, the Apostolic Signatura.

Although he's not always everybody's cup of tea in his personal views on politics and culture, he remains a very useful resource for those concerned with the fine points of liturgical practice both legit and whackadoodle. As the age of daft liturgical experimentation draws to a merciful close under good Pope Benedict, the site helps people find resources for what to do about liturgical abuses, loopy ad hoc teaching, and sundry progressive dissenting nuttery.

His New Advent site is a curious combination of "The Drudge Report" (gobs of interesting news links on the front page about whatever interests Kevin in fields of religion, science, the arts, culture, politics or just plain News of the Weird), plus links to a valuable collection of some very impressive libraries of goodies he has amassed. Need to access a hyperlinked complete copy of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae? Kevin's your man. Likewise, if you want to see the still extremely useful 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia? It's all there, lovingly typed into html and hyperlinked by a team of devoted volunteers who make this resource available to the world. You may love it so much that you find yourself volunteering to help type in more resources.

It wants to raise up a new generation of priests who are fluent in the Bible and lay people who are biblically literate.

Scott Hahn's infectious love of Scripture and extremely perceptive commentaries have opened the Bible up to untold numbers of readers both Catholic and Protestant and led to both conversions of non-Catholics and deepening of faith for Catholics.

The St. Paul Center offers online studies of Scripture, audio resources, a vast and growing library of resources, commentary from Scott and other noted Scripture scholars, and information on liturgy, prayer and Catholic spirituality.

The Catherine of Siena Institute site has a large library of documents which help the reader to root himself in the Church's teaching about our work as laity in the New Evangelization, about our mission as apostles, and about the gifts God has given each baptized person carrying that mission out. In addition, Sherry maintains a blog in which she keeps her finger on the pulse of what is happening in the mission field, as well as keeps tabs on the Church as she helps Catholics grow toward a deeper understanding of our vocation and gifts as laypeople.

There, you will find a colossal array of resources including, not just Steve's blog and a chat board, but book, video and CD recommendations as well as gobs of links to all sorts of other valuable sites (not to mention Steve's own very helpful writings on such things as the papacy or his Scripture studies). As Garrison Keillor says of Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery, if you can't find it at Steve's site, you can probably get along without it.

This has proven to be a huge help to many people in discerning not only which films are worth spending money on, but when to bring the kids. In addition, his perceptive essays help Catholics squeeze all the juice out of films by making them more aware of the subtexts of the visuals, story, and acting so they can better grasp how the artists who create some of our best films are communicating their message.